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Countrywide Full Episode 24/10/2026

Countrywide Full Episode 24/10/2026 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karina Pierce

The Agriculture faculty in UCD is 100 years old this year. Philip meets their newly appointed Dean of Faculty, Professor Karina Pierce to find out what her department is

Hometree's "Defining Moment" for Nature

With EU funding for farming with nature in retreat is this the moment that private finance might fill the gap. Ronan Doherty has transferred his fundraising skills from t

LIFE Projects Under Threat

There are 52 EU funded LIFE projects currently running in Ireland with ambitious climate and environment goals. But the funding for these could be wrapped up over the cou

Poll na bPeist Rescue

The wormhole on Inis Mor is ever more popular with tourists thanks to viral cliff diving social media posts. But few are aware how dangerous it is to even walk around it.

Countrywide Full Episode 17/10/2026

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Field Names

As our landscape changes, due to development, climate and new uses of land, the names of fields are being lost. Treasa Bhreathnach reports from Rahara, Co Roscommon on a

Agriculture Emissions

Ireland’s record on climate action is on course to be the worst in Europe. Why have efforts to cut farming’s greenhouse gasses come to a standstill.  See omnystudio.com/

Jane Clarke

Poet Jane Clarke’s work is a firm favourite among farmers. Her new collection asks awkward questions of all of us about what we are allowing to happen to the natural worl

Rutting Season

On Hawthorn Hill Farm in Roscommon Keith Brennan contemplates the unearthly call of the amorous fallow deer   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Countrywide Full Episode 10/10/26

How the seas and ocean around Ireland shape our lives and could change our future.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Silicon Valley of the Sea

Prof John Bell flips Ireland's idea of itself on its head. The country is not a peripheral island on the edge of Europe. It is a large maritime nation that could become a

Archiving Coastal Communities

The Creative Ireland visual arts project "Dunmore Through a Lens" has captured the Waterford fishing village's people and their memories. See omnystudio.com/listener for

Blue Wellbeing

Surfer and Academic Dr Easkey Britton believes that both we and the ocean will benefit by adjusting our relationship with the marine world. See omnystudio.com/listener f

Farming Seaweed

Gareth Murphy's company Oir Na Farraige has found a low impact way of harvesting seaweed for a range of uses that might actually protect marine ecosystems. See omnystudi

Food Security: Bread

Only the tiniest fraction of the flour needed to bake the 50kg of bread we eat a year is grown and milled in Ireland, and the cost of what we import is sky rocketing. We

EU Female Organic Farmer of The Year

Following her victory in the EU's most prestigious organic award we visit Kay O'Sullivan at home on Glynn Organic Farm in North Cork.  See omnystudio.com/listener for pr

Nest Protection Officer Training Programme

Ireland's first certified Nest Protection Officer Training Programme was recently launched by Ministers Martin Heydon and Christopher O'Sullivan. It was developed by Owen

Agriland/ICMSA Farmer Survey: Panel

The survey was commissioned by Agriland and the ICMSA, and it shows it isn't only older farmers who want out. One in five farmers in their late forties and early fifties,

Agriland/ICMSA Farmer Survey

During the week, a major new survey was published which suggests there will be an exodus of farmers in the next few years. In a comprehensive survey of Irish farmers - wi